Breakfast Topic: WoW outside of WoW
by Elizabeth Harper 
May 25th 2007 at 8:00AM
If you're reading this site, I'm guessing that you spend at least some time during the week playing the game World of Warcraft, amirite? But I'm specifically not asking about the time you spend in-game -- but the time out of it. How many times do you spend away from your computer talking to friends about how you leveled last night or the awesome new piece of loot that dropped for you in Karazhan? For my part, since my best friend recently decided to give in to the addiction (read: fun!) that is World of Warcraft, we rarely have a conversation that doesn't include references to the game. To the puzzlement of our non-playing friends, we'll have detailed conversations full of game references and in-jokes. So I ask you, dear readers, has the World of Warcraft crept into not only your virtual, but also your real life? Have you turned your homework into a series of reputation-grinding quests and do ordinary pieces of punctuation hold new and interesting meaning to you?
[Image courtesy of Tom, who sent it in to Around Azeroth describing this New Jersey quest-giver.]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
TV Genius is a Dumb ass May 25th 2007 8:14AM
I work in an IT department, and have always said that the help desk software we use is like my quest giver and the money I get paid is like my l00tz. Short comment because my quest giver is actually calling me now :D
Viper007Bond May 26th 2007 4:48AM
What's this "real life" thing you talk about? Can someone explain it to me?
Flake May 25th 2007 8:18AM
Reason i got into wow was thanks to friends (to whom I don't know if i should be thankful for or cursed to have)they were always talking about it and i actually knew quite a lot of WoW related stuff before I even played the game!
A friend gave me his trial account and I loved it... Been playing ever since! Of course we still talk a lot about WoW but it is far from ruling our main topics of conversation! Hasn't gotten a complete hold of us yet (cough cough)!
Greg May 25th 2007 8:35AM
My wife plays, we talk about it in bed. Haha!
Gungolf May 25th 2007 8:44AM
Depends... With some people I avoid to mention it, with others there is only WOW and nothing else.
RL-guild meetings sometimes even turn into strange behaviour, demanding water from mages, tanks first when we go into a pub, trying not to get aggro from policemen or whoever passes by, letting the hunter pull the waitress, asking the paladin for a blessing when heading for the loo etc.
Angelcorpse May 25th 2007 8:45AM
my one friend plays and when he chats about his ex-girlfriend and the lack of sex...I always comment saying "...well probably because she was part of a raid..and needed a quest done..."
Ollej May 25th 2007 8:46AM
My friends and I were in a bowling league together. We would talk about it at least once per week (3 of the 5 guys are into WoW). And when I got some bowling shoes, one of them made the reference that they "must have at least +5 to bowling skill". We make references like that alot, and other people just look puzzled.
Juicydrapsag May 25th 2007 8:48AM
LOL #3
The wife and I do the same. I find myself leaving Jokes on the grocery list like...
1 eggs
2 milk
3 [Wild Hog Shank]
4 bread
Ahoni May 25th 2007 9:01AM
I had to stop myself from referring to a change in the bonus structure as a nerf.
Ablinkin May 25th 2007 9:05AM
There were several couples hanging out playing Catch Phrase. Exactly half of us play WoW, and half don't. We ended up having a competition of WoW players vs Non-WoW players. Needless to say, WoW players took 2 out of 3 because we were able to use WoW references to help our team get answers for several phrases.
Tigraine May 25th 2007 9:06AM
3>> My wife plays, we talk about it in bed. Haha!
Rofl.. The exact same thing happens to me since my Girlfriend startet playing.
She's very mutch into Warcraft Lore and had played Warcraft 3 for over a year before she gave into WoW. Now her Hunter has come to her mid-sixties and she really enjoys the whole Plot in Outland. Always asking me why in the hell Magtheridon is still alive and why things are like they are because they apparently where different in Warcraft 3.
Eldiablohijo May 25th 2007 9:20AM
When I go out to lunch with several of my co workers it's generally all wow talk.
Then when i'm hanging out with friends i'd say a good 25%-50% of the talk depending on what we're doing is about WoW.
ben1778 May 25th 2007 10:12AM
I am at work now, and I'm on Gmail chatting with a friend about what we're going to do this weekend in WoW.
My GF plays and we talk about it often as well. We often have to watch ourselves around our non-gaming friends with all the jokes.
Very few non-WoW-heads understand what you mean if you tell them to "QQ More".
T May 25th 2007 10:21AM
Heh, seems like my fiancee and I aren't the only couple who talk WoW here and there!
Our mothers have both turned into weird proxy bridezilla nutcases, so it's nice to have something other than wedding to talk about. You get funny looks in public when you say something costs 21 gold or other such slips!
dirty May 25th 2007 10:25AM
My friends give me hell whenever i talk about it and i get made fun of pretty ruthlessly by them because i play but it's all in good fun. The GF cracks me up when i start talking about my "70 blood elf lock" and she'll roll her eyes asking "what the hell did you just say?"
Gungolf May 25th 2007 10:42AM
Neighbours must think you're a complete nutcase when you talk on TeamSpeak while raiding. It's summer, windows are wide open, so is the balcony, and neighbours a having barbecue right under my balcony - my WoW-talk probably is not to overhear.
picanteboy May 25th 2007 11:01AM
LOL @ 8. I recently had my job description changed pretty drastically so I told the guy in the cube next to me I want my talent points refunded.
amanda.riisager May 25th 2007 11:28AM
A little off of the question but still relevantly amusing I think...
The funniest moment I had in which I realized that maybe WOW was becoming a little to much of my life was at Disneyland. While riding "It's A Small World" I looked over and saw a bush trimmed into the shape of a bear. The first thought that came to mind as we floated past this creature of horticulture was I wonder how many exp points I can get for killing it and skinning it. I immediately texted one of my friends a message basically stating above thought. We still laugh about my desire to have a Disneyland area on the map... Maybe in the next patch.
Bryce Fischer May 25th 2007 11:46AM
Driving one day, trying to find a restaurant, was tempted to call my friend and look it up the coords on Thottbot...
Craig May 25th 2007 12:19PM
One day, after a particularly long WoW session, my pregnant wife walked into the room wearing a maternity shirt that said "Mama" on it.
I swear to God, I thought it said "Mana".